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UPDATE, 1:59 PM: “He believed in me when nobody else did,” saidEmpire co-creator Lee Daniels today of Damon Dash with a promise to defang a $5 million dollar lawsuit the Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder hit the Shadowboxer director with earlier this week.
“I'm happy to give him his money back even though the movie…

EXCLUSIVE: After publishing a memoir that bared her rise as a '70s screen siren and a private life that included love affairs with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Richard Pryor and Freddie Prinze, Pam Grier is focused on Pam, the working title of a biopic that will bring her life story to the screen. A script by Bennie Richburg…

Here is a photo gallery focusing on the career of Gene Wilder, who died Sunday. The revered comic actor starred in such inarguable classics as The Producers, Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein and worked alongside such comedy greats as Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Richard Pryor…

Gene Wilder, the singular comedy actor whose many iconic credits include Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and the Mel Brooks classics Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles and The Producers, died late Sunday from complications of Alzheimer’s disease in Stamford, CT. His family confirmed the news to the Associated…

Empire co-creator and showrunner Lee Daniels has parted ways with The Weinstein Company and is no longer directing the studio’s upcoming Richard Pryor biopic, Deadline has confirmed.
The move comes as a result of Daniels’ busy schedule rather than any behind-the-scenes drama. Production on the Pryor film already was…

Add Harvey and Bob Weinstein to the chorus of Hollywood voices speaking out against a pending bill in Georgia that would permit faith-based groups and organizations in the state to discriminate based on sexuality. Disney said that it would take its business elsewhere if Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signs into law, and…

EXCLUSIVE: The Weinstein Company is ready to greenlight its Richard Pryor biopic, and my, have Harvey Weinstein and Lee Daniels put together a terrific cast. The new additions: Oprah Winfrey will play Pryor’s grandmother, who ran a brothel and raised the iconic comic there; Eddie Murphy will play Pryor’s father, Leroy…

EXCLUSIVE: After blowing away everybody with his audition, actor-comic Mike Epps has emerged as the front-runner to star as Richard Pryor in the biopic that Lee Daniels will direct at The Weinstein Company. Daniels has been in TWC headquarters working with and auditioning a group of young actors that has included…